Remember about a month ago when I said I started playing Minecraft, tossing caution and productivity to the wind? That fire burned bright for a solid week. Oh, how it burned. Several late night sessions, as well as a weekend WLAN party. People built many majestic structures and we chatted the evenings away. It made me feel like certain WoW play sessions from years ago. I even installed phpBB on my host and set up a one-pager explaining how to log in to our servers if anyone recommended someone else come and check it out.

Sleep is something all humans need. How much sleep we need is arguable, but we all seem to perform our daily tasks better if we get at least a modicum of sleep.

“Make it so.”

The dramatic flair of issuing a command this way cannot be argued, but the overall utility of this being the prime way to control something never seems to be criticized. Moving away from an abstract panel with buttons or keys to using the sole power of our voice often seems to be idolized in sci-fi utopias. Why use a keyboard to type words when you can just say them, right? Sounds awesome. The first few times. Maybe now you’re in an environment where you don’t want people knowing what you’re doing, or you’re hoarse, or it’s too loud. All of that on top of a basic introverted judgement anxiety can actually make this “superior” input mechanism seem downright overwhelming.

A recent review of the Xbox 360 Kinect, which comes out today, caught my eye this morning.

ROCK BAND 3 KEYS

The new Rock Band introduces us to a keyboard controller. It’s a two-octave jobby and it’s pretty decent for $80. There protrudes a handle off its left side, and it comes with a strap so the transition to key_tar_ is easy and pleasing. That being said, I pretty much suck at using it.

I have a very real issue with judgement.

In what may seem like a twisted form of narcissism, I often feel people are judging me, be it consciously or unconsciously. This causes me to not do certain things, or to at least put them off or complain a lot while I'm doing them. Now, we all judge. We judge all the time. It's how we navigate our world, constantly evaluating properties and conditions so we can make efficient and productive paths towards our goals. So when I talk about feeling judged all the time, it's significant only in that it adversely affects my behavior and mood.

It’s still really amazing when I get paid for doing music. Something I started doing back in high school for fun now has come in handy for producing some kind of sporadic income multiple times.

Switching to Chrome from Firefox a while back was pretty much a sweet move. Nothing again Firefox, which is a great browser and one I used for a long time proudly, but the interface and design of Google’s now pretty-popular app has won me over. The two things initially keeping me away, plugins/extensions and Firebug, have been ameliorated by beefing up the catalog and making peace with the Web Inspector.

I’ve (video) gamed for a long time. You know how I know? Cuz the NES just celebrated its 25th anniversary.

I like using technology to simplify things. Well, that's being rather prudent. I like technology because it pays my way through life, really. But to be more specific I like it when there's some cool tool (especially when it's free) that I can easily download and use to make something more awesome or make a long process more speedy.

I’ve always thought as myself as someone who can get along with just about anyone. Lots of things annoy me just like anyone else, but I’m pretty good at staying quiet and/or just letting it ride despite any misgivings I may have.

Despite getting caught up in Minecraft for most of the night, I was able to get in some coding tonight.

Forgive me, Productivity, but I started playing Minecraft.

Nebyoolae.com is now a full-on Cake app. What this means for you, the visitor, is that adding functionality will be a lot easier for me and more fun for you. In the near future, I’ll be adding search capabilities, song commenting and ranking, and more tagging support for songs.

My entry for the RPM 2010 Challenge is complete! I invented a new “personality” for this project called Adversapolis. The album is self-titled because I couldn’t come up with anything else once I spent my creative juices on that.

The album of original music is about 42 minutes long, consists of 9 songs, and features me on the guitar, bass guitar, and vocals. The drums were sequenced, as usual. The genre is “Rock” or “Alternative Rock,” depending on your druthers. You can grab it from its very own domain, Adversapolis, for the next Time of Some Duration, which will then be succeeded by the Time Wherein It Gets Integrated Into Nebyoolae.com, As Well.

Whomever actually wrote the LiveJournal Import tool is a godsend. Instead of this blog starting out with one wimpy little “HEY GUYS” post, it’s already stacked with over EIGHTEEN HUNDRED ENTRIES.

An emigrant from LiveJournal, where I was happily blogging for several years, I have finally made the jump to personal domain blogging. I have 7+ years of LiveJournal entries to import, but that will have to wait for now.

I’m seriously considering moving away from the LiveJournal “platform” for my blogging needs. Since the community that was once here doesn’t feel like it exists anymore, this probably won’t affect anything. By community, I’m referring to the people on my friends list, a significant amount of which do not post anymore or leave comments. This includes me. This causes me to check the site infrequently for any locked posts that don’t get through my public-only RSS feed.

The first video in my The Matic album of themes has caught the fancy of the institution that afforded the idea for it in the first place! The circle, as they say, is complete.

In other words, SIO has linked The Sea Castle!

Scripps Forum

I don’t listen to podcasts much, but when someone asked me to let them play some of Gamey Mixture in theirs, I modified my behavior.

RadioFreeGamer is the podcast in question, and it’s a good one. Showcasing video game music and remixes of such, the host was kind enough to play a few tunes during last week’s show.

You can download it at their site.